“…With regards to the instruments used to measure social support, there was wide variation, although Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support emerged as the most used instrument to measure social support among undergraduates (Adamczyk, 2015;Frison & Eggermont, 2015;Lee & Goldstein, 2016;Li et al, 2018;Roohafza et al, 2016;Wongtongkam, 2019;Yıldırım et al, 2017;. Other instruments used to measure social support included Perceived Social Support Scale (Gökçearslan et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2016), Social Support Rating Scale (Shah et al, 2016;Tang & Dai, 2018), Social and Emotional Health Survey (You et al, 2017;, MOS Social Support Survey (Ceglarek & Ward, 2016), Multi-Dimensional Support Scale (Ng et al, 2017), Perceived Acceptance Scale (Rodríguez et al, 2017), and Social Support Questionnaire (Bai et al, 2018). Specific characteristics of the included studies are presented in Table 1.…”